BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS JOURNAL CLUB 2018 - 2019
Time: Every other Monday from 10:00 – 11:00 am starting October 1, 2018
Contacts: Joyce Wang (wangjoy@umich.edu) and Anna Sintsova (annasint@med.umich.edu)
Some guidelines about presentations:
• Presentations should be ~30-45 min.
• The paper to be presented must be emailed to Joyce Wang (wangjoy@med.umich.edu) as a PDF by Friday one week before the presentation. It is the responsibility of the lab PI to assign presenters for the journal club.

The next BPJC meeting will be this Friday November 17 at 3pm in 5613 MSII. Ryan Berger from Mary O'Riordan's Laboratory will present: "Pseudomonas aeruginosa Transmigrates at Epithelial Cell-Cell Junctions, Exploiting Sites of Cell Division and Senescent Cell Extrusion" by Golovkine et al. PLoS Pathog. 2016 Jan 4;12(1):e1005377. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005377. eCollection 2016 Jan. The paper is attached and can be found here.

The Bacterial Pathogenesis Journal Club (BPJC) will meet Friday November 3 at 3pm in 5613 MSII. Elisa Hughes from Michelle Swanson's Laboratory will present: "Contribution of reactive oxygen species to thymineless death in Escherichia coli" by Hong et al. Nature Microbiology (2017) doi:10.1038/s41564-017-0037-y. The paper is attached and can be found here.

Please join us next Friday at 3pm. Refreshments will be provided by the Swanson Lab.

The BPJC will meet Friday October 20 at 3pm in 5613 MSII. Arwen Frick-Cheng from Harry Mobley's Laboratory will be presenting the paper: "Helicobacter pylori Employs a Unique Basolateral Type IV Secretion Mechanism for CagA Delivery" by Tegtmeyer et al. Cell Host and Microbe vol 22(4), p552–560.e5, 11 October 2017. The paper is attached and can be found here.

Our next meeting will be Friday October 6 at 3pm in 5613 MSII. Rebecca Pollet from Nicole Koropatkin's Laboratory will be presenting the paper: "Metabolic, Epigenetic, and Transgenerational Effects of Gut Bacterial Choline Consumption" by Romano et al., 2017, Cell Host & Microbe 22, 279–290. The paper is attached and can be found here. According to an anonymous source it's an interesting look at the mechanistic details of how the gut microbiota can cause disease.